Deutsches Stadion, Berlin, 16–17 July 1927
Dr. Otto Peltzer skipped the middle-distance events at the German Championships and instead ran the 400-metre hurdles, where he surged to first place with a national record of 54.8. This result ranked ninth in the world statistics for the season.
Remarkably, Germany's long-distance records were also reset at the championships. Otto Kohn unleashed an 800-metre kick and galloped to a 5000-metre victory on his home track with a time of 15:03.2. Meanwhile, Otto Petri handled the 10,000 meters with a relatively modest result of 32:00.8. Among the Ottos, Kohn was selected for the Amsterdam Olympics a year later, where his journey in the 5000-metre heats ended early.
Amsterdam 200 bronze medalist Helmut Körnig secured both the 100 and 200 championships for the second consecutive year. The German record of 21.4 set in the longer distance was somewhat questionable, as the track at Berlin's old Olympic Stadium was 600 metres long, meaning the 200 was run on a fairly gentle curve. In the 100, the order was exactly the same as at the British Championships a couple of weeks earlier, although Hubert Houben, who had dominated the German sprinting scene in the early 1920s, lost more narrowly to Körnig this time.
European top names in discus, Ernst Paulus and Hans Hoffmeister, were in modest form. Paulus took silver, and Hoffmeister dropped out of the medals to fourth place. Hermann Hänchen, a Berlin policeman who died in 1943, won the event.
Medallists (Wikipedia)
Helsingin Sanomat, July 19, 1927 (in Finnish)
Uusi Suomi, July 19, 1927 (in Finnish)